Author: arved

Austria lost against Poland in football.

I am usually not interested in austrian football. My girlfriend told me that it was a nice match, Austria “nearly” won.
Nice excerpt from IRC:

10:27 -!- oleczek [^alex@wj118.internetdsl.tpnet.pl] has joined #bsdaustria
10:27 < oleczek> guten tag everybody
10:29 <@uza> hey oleczek
10:29 < latoya> oleczek is trying to compile that new, cool window manager
kahakai
10:29 < oleczek> I like your bot, it’s amazing.
10:30 < oleczek> latoya: I want to say our team which isn’t that fantastic won
yesterday with your (football)
10:30 < latoya> oleczek: excuse me?

Murphy does not use KDE

Everytime there is a FreeBSD release something in the KDE ports horrible breaks. This time:

  1. kdevelop didn’t build on amd64, (okay this my fault, as i noticed this immediately after the 3.3.0 upgrade, but forgot to fix it).
  2. kdemultimedia failed to link after a last minute bsd.port.mk.patch. Big thanks for Andy Fawcett for tracking this down.
  3. kdm was broken in the 3.3.0 upgrade.

Can we now please finish the portsfreeze?

Buying CDs in Vienna

Usually I am buying CDs at the Virgin Megastore, Mariahilfer Strasse. Unfortunately it is currently closed for refurbishment. Saturn doesn’t really sell CDs I like, so where do people buy CDs in Vienna?
I don’t know any other _large_ record store in Vienna :-(. Most people on IRC suggest Amazon, which is nice if you know what you want, but bad for searching around. At the Virgin you can listen to CDs for hours and there are always at least three CDs that I like.

Shut up and blog!

Today I discovered keramida@’s blog and was quite surprised to find my own blog linked right next to mwlucas@ Big Scary Daemons.
Time to start a list of FreeBSD committers that write a blog, diaries, livejournals. (Although some take freefall’s motd serious and prefer to code over writing blog entries)

Disclaimer: This list is not complete, please add a comment if i forgot one. There is also the slight possibility that i added a wrong URL, especially as i neither speak Korean, Japanese or Chinese.

Update 2004-10-05: Added clsung, foxfair, grog, hosokawa, hrs, lth, mich, motoyuki, yoichi.

Update 2004-10-09: Added nyan, issei, nobutaka. Thanks to motoyuki who maintains a diarylist of the japanese BSD community

Update 2004-10-17: Added ijliao, remko

Update 2004-10-23: Added alex

I am too old to be a student

When i wanted to buy my student ticket for public transport today, the clerk told me that i am too old. A few days ago I wrote about Fare dodging and now this is reality for me.
There are three possibilities to get to work: First I could use my knowledge about the ticket inspectors and become a professional fare dodger.
The second option is the bike, although my digicam does not support videos like Horst’s and I need to sweat at least 30 minutes to get to university.
The third option is to use day tickets which are cheaper than the The Annual ticket if i use the subway less than 270 days a year.
The third option is to add 60 EUR to my transport budget and buy the The Annual ticket
Hm…..

My WLAN

I went Warwalking today and noticed that there are now 14 WLANs in my neighborhood, most of them secured by Mac-Address-filters or WEP.
Here is a map of my WLAN:
mywlan.png
With the second Accesspoint the whole garden is covered and unfortunately it is now visible from the Metropoldi.
The pink color shows the area where you should be able to connect to my WLAN, but I need to collect more data from the neighbor houses, especially the school (no 58-56) and the garage (Hernalser Hauptstr 57).

routed & RIP

My home network gets more complicated with every device I add.
I made a new network diagram of my home network.
I am currently trying to use RIP via routed to announce the routes to the different networks (WLAN, FastEthernet, GigabitEthernet, FirewireEthernet and Internet). Unfortunately the documentation of routed on the internet is not very good. The Linux routed although based on the original BSD routed has diverged a lot from the current FreeBSD routed especially the syntax of the config file. Additional most people just start routed and it works, so there are very few /etc/gateways sample files on the net.
Currently announcing of the local networks works, but the default route isn’t propageted the right way (always prefer the cable-networks over the wireless networks). Maybe one reason is, that my ADSL router doesn’t announce the route to the Internet.

Continue reading “routed & RIP”

Feedbag Error

Today I reinstalled iChat, because I read, that iChat works with ICQ (well sort of) and because the MacOS Software Update program always suggest downloading the iChat security update. While trying to configure it, I got a strange bug:
feedbag.png
Very funny translation error *lol*